• Movie City New Gurus of Gold latest predictions - i find it interesting that the ranking is all over the place with Promising Young Woman all the way from #1 to #10 (though it's on all the lists)
• IndieWire There was so much awards stuff happening this week that we never discusseed Todd Haynes planning a Peggy Lee biopic with Michelle Williams. Obviously I feel bad about this because we love all three people and that sounds amazing!
• Empire Got a spare 182 minutes? Directors Edgar Wright and Quentin Tarantino did a podcast together.
Steven Yeun, WandaVision, a messy Color Purple legal battle, a strange Nicole Kidman story, Edward Scissorhands at the Superbowl, and more after the jump...
• Deadline Göteborg Film Festival just ended and gave awards to films that were also popular at Sundance like the animated Flee and the porn drama Pleasure but the top winner was an international sports biopic called Tigers which won the fest + Best Actor. The film is in Swedish, Italian, and English.
• MUBI Rotterdam film festival also recently ended with a domestic abuse drama Pebbles from India taking the top prize
• NYT Magazine long form profile of Steven Yeun. I want to believe he's going to get that Oscar nom but still not quite believing it.
• Vanity Fair on that recent mind-blowing cameo in WandaVision. I was mortified (because I dont care for the actor) but most people loved it.
• Daily Beast here's an odd story - police were called when a theater patron swatted Nicole Kidman with a program for giving the cast a standing ovation. WTF?
• Advocate here's a messy story - an actress fired from The Color Purple in London because of her homophobia is suing her agent and theater, and claims not to have known that the main character Celie was a lesbian.
• The Oatmeal a comic about video calls
• IndieWire Chloe Zhao's next two pictures after Nomadland are aiming for the mainstream. First is obviously Marvel's Eternals and afterwards she's doing a new spin on Dracula. We wish her the best but hope she doesn't lose what makes her special as she spends the next few years in franchiseland.
• Variety Oscar winning screenwriter Robert C Jones (Coming Home) has died
• Go Fug Yourself thinks Cicely Tyson was chic as hell and has the photogallery to prove it.
Today's Video
It's Superbowl Sunday (no joke. I never realize that until the actual day of it) which means pricey commercials and trailers. Here's one riffing on Edward Scissorhands with a hopefully very well-paid Winona Ryder and Timothée Chalamet.
There's also four ads featuring LGBTQ+ stars.